Irish Uprising

The Easter Rising (Éirí Amach na Cásca) was an armed insurrection in Ireland during Easter Week, 1916. The Rising was mounted by Irish republicans to end British rule in Ireland and establish an independent Irish Republic. This mini-season of films marks the 100th anniversary (1916-2016) of those events.

Saoirse? (Freedom?) documents the period 1919-1922 in Ireland’s history, covering the war of independence against the British and the civil war that followed using archive footage from the time, including original newsreel footage.

Almost half a century after those terrible events, Kenneth Griffith interviewed a group of veterans of the Easter Rising and Irelands war of Independence. This highly diverse group – branded terrorists by the British in their youth – give their own account of what it was like to live through those turbulent times.

Sunday, 21 February at 7.00pm

Michael Collins

Neil Jordan | France/Ireland/UK | 1996 | 133 min

Michael Collins plays a crucial role in the establishment of the Irish Free State in the 1920s, but becomes vilified by those hoping to create a completely independent Irish republic.

Sunday, 28 February at 7.00pm

The Wind That Shakes the Barley

Ken Loach | UK | 2006 | 127 min

Against the backdrop of the Irish War of Independence, two brothers fight a guerrilla war against British forces.